A LIBEL OF SPANISH LIES a.d. 



1596. 



Thirdly, the Generall doth say of his owne credite, and 

 not by intelligence from any Indian or other, that 

 on the eleventh of March last he met the English 

 fleete at the He of Pinos, being fourteene good 

 shippes : who although they had the winde of him, 

 yet he set upon them three times with all their 

 shippes : but the English Fleete fled, and refused 

 to fight, shooting now and then a shot, but especi- 

 ally the Viceadmirall. 



THis third lie of the Generall Don Bernaldino 

 Delgadillo de Avellaneda (whose name for the 

 prolixitie thereof may be drawen somewhat neere the 

 length of a cable) hath no colour of protection, but it 

 hath a just proportion in measure to the lies of olde 

 Bernardino de Mendoza his countreyman, concerning the J payre of 

 overthrowe of hir Majesties Navie in the yeere one ^p^^'^^^ I'^^rs. 

 thousand five hundred eightie and eight. For except 

 Don Bernaldino the Generall did purpose to winne the 

 whetstone from Don Bernardino de Mendoza the olde 

 Spanish Iyer ; I cannot conjecture why he should write 

 to his countrey for a truth, that he chased the English 

 Navie with nine shippes, and did three severall times 

 give the onset to the English fleete, who being fourteene 

 good shippes (as he saith) did flie and refuse to fight ; 

 considering that the Spanish Viceadmirall (if he be living) The Spanish 

 and many other can witnesse the contrarie : who fighting ^'^'^^^dmhrall 

 like a true valiant man, departed from the fight with a ^^^^^ 

 torne and battered shippe to save her from sinking. 

 Neither can I imagine that there is any one in the 

 Spanish Fleete (Don Bernaldino excepted) that will say 

 they were lesse then twentie sayle of shippes when they 

 met the English fleete : and the Spanish Navie can 

 witnesse that they received such store of bullets from 

 the English fleete, that they were glad to depart, and 

 in despight of them the English navie did holde their 

 determined course : And taking a viewe of the Spanish Spanish ships 

 fleete the next day, their number was not above thirteene after the Jight. 



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